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D.A., thanks for that very honest answer. My experience has been that not one agent or publisher was interested in a Western. The only publishers and publicity agents who pursued me were in the vanity publishing business. So, like you, I did my own editing for my first novel and am doing the same with the current manuscript I've almost completed. I'm only going to offer it to maybe two Western publishers but plan on publishing and promoting it myself.
It seems that most agents and publishers feel that the American Western is a dead genre. I came to realize that in the end, agents and publishers are looking for something that sells, and writing in a niche market automatically puts us at a disadvantage. I was very hesitant to self publish, but after two bad experiences with editors and one publisher, I decided to forge my own path.
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D.A., thanks for that very honest answer. My experience has been that not one agent or publisher was interested in a Western. The only publishers and publicity agents who pursued me were in the vanity publishing business. So, like you, I did my own editing for my first novel and am doing the same with the current manuscript I've almost completed. I'm only going to offer it to maybe two Western publishers but plan on publishing and promoting it myself.
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It seems that most agents and publishers feel that the American Western is a dead genre. I came to realize that in the end, agents and publishers are looking for something that sells, and writing in a niche market automatically puts us at a disadvantage. I was very hesitant to self publish, but after two bad experiences with editors and one publisher, I decided to forge my own path.
